13 Jan Lordship Title of South Denchworth or Cleets ID14326
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Six hides here were held in 1086 of the barony of Stafford, and are sometimes described as 'half the manor of South Denchworth.' the other half being the Ferrers fee. The tenant at the time of the Domesday Survey was Laurence, who also held land at Wilbrighton in Staffordshire. Both manors were subsequently held by the Wilbrighton family. In 1166 Hervey de Wilbrighton had an alternative name of Hervey de Denchworth. Melana, who was holding the Denchworth manor at the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, was perhaps his widow. She had a son Adam, whose son Hervey was succeeded in or about 1220 by William de Wilbrighton. To the latter Hervey de Stafford remitted his relief for one knight's fee which his father had held in Denchworth. Hervey de Wilbrighton, perhaps the son of William, held half this fee in the middle of the 13th century. The other half, which was afterwards known as CLEETS, had apparently been granted by his family to the Prior of Poughley, who in 1241 gave it to Elias de Bagnor for scutage and an annual rent. Elias, who was joint tenant with Hervey, was succeeded by John de Bagnor, who must have sold the estate to Rowland de Earley, the tenant in 1294. From the Earleys, who were still in possession in 1307, the manor passed to David Martin, Bishop of St. David's, who in 1328 held of the Prior of Poughley a capital messuage and lands here. His heir was Thomas de Carew, son of his sister Avice, who in 1333 granted two parts of the manor to Richard Cleet of Chipping Lambourn. Richard had a son and heir John, whose daughter and heir Alice married first Edmund Danvers, and afterwards Richard Abberbury. She and her second husband leased Cleets to the Hyde family. The latter had already acquired the mesne lordship from John Shelford and his wife Elizabeth, who had bought it from the Prior of Poughley, and in 1408 Richard Abberbury and Alice granted to John Hyde all their right in lands in South Denchworth. Cleets was thus added to the other Hyde lands. After their sale in 1617 it seems to have followed the descent of South Denchworth.
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